Gaiter.



` PATENTED SEPT. 1,-1908. H. COHEN.

GAITER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.19,1907. RBNWED JUNE 19, 190s.

HYMAN COHEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK-- y GAITER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed March 19, 1907, Serial No. 363,169. Renewed June 19, 1908. Serial No, 439,454.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HYMAN COHEN, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andl State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gaiters, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and'use the same.

This invention relates to overgaiters and the object thereof is to provide a gaiter of this class which is readily adaptable to use with or without the usual rubber foot coverings, commonly known as galoshes; a further object being to provide a gaiter of this class which is similar in appearance to gaiters as constructed at present when used without the said foot coverings, andwhich is not only neat in appearance, but very inexpensive in manufacture.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying` drawings form a part, in which the separate parts are designated by the same re erence characters in each of the views and in which: y

Figure 1 is a view of a shoe provided lwith my gaiter. Fig. 2 is a similar view, but with the gaiter opened in order to more clearly set forth the construction. Fig. 3 a sectional view showing the gaiter in use upon a shoe.'

without the rubber foot covering, andv Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3, but s owing the gaiter in position when thefoot coverings are employed.

In the drawings forming a part of this application, I have shown a gaiter a placed upon a shyoe b, said gaiter comprising a rear member c and a front member d, adapted to be connected as shown at e by means of the usual glove fasteners, buttons or other equivalents.

Permanently connected with each side of the gaiter and adjacent to the bottom thereof as shown at f is a strap g, which passes underneath the shoe b and is preferably provided with a buckle h to connect the two l parts of the strap q, but the said strap may strap g and at each side of the gaiter is the nected, the strap gis passed beneath the foot in the usual manner, after which the foot covering 7c is placedover the shoe, the sides of the gaiter being raised to permit this operation; and when the overshoe 7c is in posltion, the sides of the gaiter are dropped over the upper edges of said overshoefas clearly shown in Fig. 4, and therebya neat 'effect is produced, and it will be seen that the strap. g is inside of the saidI foot covering, While the gaiter itself is outside of the same.

Although I have shown a glove fastener for the purpose of holding the strap g and sides of the gaiter together, it will be obvious that ordinary buttons may be employed, and various other changes in, and modications of the construction shown and described may be made within the scopeof thefollowin claims, without sacrificing the advantages o my invention or departing from the spirit thereof, and with this reservation,

What I claim as new and vdesire to secure 1. A gaiter, comprising afront and rear member adapted to be connected with'each other, a strap secured to said gaiter, at each f side thereof, and at a predetermined djstance from the lower edge and supplemental devices for detachably connecting said strap to the lower edge of said gaiter, at each side thereof.

2. A gaiter comprising a front and rear member adapted to be connected with each other, a strap permanently connected to said gaiter, at one side thereof and at a predetermined distance from the lower edge thereof, a supplemental strap similarly secured to the other side of said aiter, devices for connecting said straps with each other and means for detachably connecting the lower edge of said gaiter with said straps.

`3. A gaiter comprising a front and rear member adapted to be connected with each other, a. stra permanently secured to said my invention yI have signed 'my name in presv gaiter at -eac side thereof, and ata. predeence of the subscribing Witnesses this 18th l0 termined distance from the lower edge thereday of Merch 1907.

of a. seeurin device comprising tWo mem '5 bers, one of W `eh is secured to saidstrap and HYMAN COHEN' the other of which is secured tosaid gaiter at Witnesses:

each side thereof. S. F. MoTTLeND,

n In testimony that/1 claim the foregoing as B. L. SACHS. 

